We’ve got a huge new shopping complex being built just across the road from our church center. It will represent a huge change to the demographic layout of Mount Gambier, now and for the future. How can we adapt to this change for the Gospel? Hopefully more effectively than these folk did when they built …

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J.D. Greear provides thirty-six ‘plumblines’, values he’s picked up over ten years of pastoring which he wishes he’d had from the beginning. Including the now ubiquitous nod to ‘the city’ there’s a lot of well phrased wisdom here. Yes, I know there are only thirty-five. Weird, huh? (I think 35 was meant to be 35 …

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Lots and lots and lots of thanksgiving reflections on the blogosphere today. (And Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping specials, but that’s another story.) I liked this post from the Crossway blog, which excerpts Timothy George’s book Amazing Grace: God’s Pursuit, Our Response. Grace is not an impersonal force or a divine quality to be …

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